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NEW DELHI, Sep 14, 2016, DHNS
New Delhi argued that sustained anti-India terrorism launched from Pakistan had aggravated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. India on Tuesday defended its decision to reject the request of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to allow him or his representatives to visit Jammu and Kashmir.New Delhi argued that sustained anti-India terrorism launched from Pakistan had aggravated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

August 25, 2016
Social media companies including Facebook and Twitter are “consciously failing” at keeping its services free from extremist content as terror groups like the Islamic State continue to use those platforms for recruitment purposes, British lawmakers said Thursday.Along with Google’s YouTube, the social media titans are singled out by name in a report on radicalization released by the U.K. Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee this week following a year-long investigation launched to examine the recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, particularly Islamic State.

August 25, 2016
Social media companies including Facebook and Twitter are “consciously failing” at keeping its services free from extremist content as terror groups like the Islamic State continue to use those platforms for recruitment purposes, British lawmakers said Thursday.Along with Google’s YouTube, the social media titans are singled out by name in a report on radicalization released by the U.K. Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee this week following a year-long investigation launched to examine the recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, particularly Islamic State.

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Says ‘If It Goes on Like This, We Christians in Syria Will Disappear…’

APRIL 15, 2016
Syria 08 April 2016
His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II in the demoliished by ISIS St. Elian church (Syriac Orthodox) in Al-Qaryateyn

Al-Qaryatayn (also spelled Karyatayn, Qaratin or Cariatein) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate located southeast of Homs. It is situated on an oasis in the Syrian Desert. Nearby localities include Tadmur (Palmyra) to the northeast, Furqlus to the north, al-Riqama and Dardaghan to the northwest, Mahin, Huwwarin and Sadad to the west, Qarah, Deir Atiyah and al-Nabk to the southwest and Jayrud to the south. Al-Qaryatayn translates as "the two villages".